[PLing] TERMIN: When sound change meets inflection: Slavic final syllables | Gastvortrag von Prof. Thomas Olander (University of Copenhagen) | Slawistik Wien, 29. April 2025

[Stefan Michael Newerkla]

Einladung zu einem Gastvortrag von

*Prof. Thomas Olander*
(University of Copenhagen)

*When sound change meets inflection: Slavic final syllables
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Termin: Dienstag, 29. April 2025, 15:00 Uhr
Ort: Online mittels Zoom:
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While Slavic is generally a rather conservative Indo-European language 
with regard to both phonology and inflection, some prominent forms in 
the inflectional system do not lend themselves to a straightforward 
interpretation, e.g. o-stem nominative singular ending -ŭ, ah₂-stem 
genitive singular -y and ah₂-stem nominative plural -y. With the 
discovery of the birchbark documents written in the Old Novgorod 
dialect, things seem to get even more difficult: the corresponding 
endings found here are, surprisingly, -e, -ě and -ě.

In this lecture I present the results of my earlier investigation of 
these and related forms (Olander 2012), written before I became familiar 
with the strikingly similar conclusions by Viredaz (2009). The Old 
Novgorod material, rather than being yet another set of obscure problems 
we have to live with, provides the key to understanding what happened 
between PIE and the attested Slavic dialects. Almost all the forms in 
question – both those of the “classical” Slavic dialects and those of 
the Old Novgorod dialect – are in fact the expected outcomes of the 
corresponding PIE proto-forms, having arisen as the result of a 
pre-Proto-Slavic change of short and long *a to *ə in final syllables 
closed by a fricative: pre-Proto-Slavic *ā̆ > Proto-Slavic ə̄̆ /_ (R)S 
(where R = resonant, S = fricative).

Dr. Ivan Petrov

Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Stefan-Michael Newerkla
Leiter des Instituts für Slawistik

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stephan Müller
Dekan der Philologisch-Kulturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Universität 
Wien

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